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Monkey See
8:48 am
Fri October 19, 2012

Entirely Real Photos: What's It Like At A Rockettes Rehearsal?

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Linda Haberman (L), Director and Choreographer of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular directs The Rockettes at the 2012 Radio City Christmas Spectacular Rehearsals this week in New York.
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I have no particular wisdom about this photo; I just think it's interesting to see that the Rockettes are never not regimented. I thought maybe you'd be allowed to wear your own dance clothes, but it makes sense that they'd want to see the effect of everyone looking the same, even in practice. These women work hard.

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Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
8:03 am
Fri October 19, 2012

NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of October 18, 2012

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Sherman Alexie's Blasphemy, a collection of stories about Native American life, debuts at No. 15.

Monkey See
7:44 am
Fri October 19, 2012

Morning Shots: 'Girls,' Jerks, 'Sugar Dome,' And Messing With Classics

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Originally published on Fri October 19, 2012 3:51 pm

I continue to be utterly fascinated by Ta-Nehisi Coates and his quest to learn French. "I now understand why two-year-olds are so frustrated," and other insights. [The Atlantic]

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Movie Reviews
4:14 pm
Thu October 18, 2012

Aging Gracefully By Sticking 'All Together'

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Five friends decide to move in together as an alternative to retirement-home living in the French-language dramedy All Together.
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The arrangement is not without its challenges — including tensions surrounding a long-ago romance — but the characters are at least spending their golden years among those they love most.
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Like the characters in this year's indie feel-good The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — British pensioners who decide to spend their autumn years living communally and on the cheap in India — the French seniors of the charming yet melancholy All Together face aging in a time of banking crises and austerity measures.

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Movie Reviews
4:03 pm
Thu October 18, 2012

'Nobody Walks' The Straight And Narrow Path

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A married Hollywood sound man (John Krasinski) falls for his collaborator and house guest (Olivia Thirlby) in Nobody Walks, a messily mortifying study of emotional impulse.
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The man's psychologist wife (Rosemarie DeWitt) is not without emotional complications of her own.
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Originally published on Fri October 19, 2012 7:50 am

October is normally a time for watching movies through your fingers, knowing something grim is about to happen. Ry Russo-Young's new film, Nobody Walks, is no exception — except that at a horror movie, you're guarding against images that are sure to be terrifying. In this intimate, quietly compelling indie drama, they're mortifying.

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